Trains Below Sea Level! [Union Pacific's Yuma Sub]

[@sojourning7]

I've enjoyed and admired trains since I was a little girl. I am now 72 yrs. old and I still do! Appreciate these videos so very much..❤

[@SpringfieldAndWestern]

These documentaries are easily some of the most enjoyable things on YT. Also so many ideas for model railroading sceneries.

[@7ideaproductions]

Thank you!

[@kenmunozatmmrrailroad6853]

A moment to wax-on as I enjoy your program immensely over warm dinner plate at dinette table. As a commercial driver whose main hub is in Colton, I never tire observing this endless traffic over the fly-over as I in turn, fly over its rails. Glancing west as I depart, long trains pass underneath to and fro the amazing Fontana yard with each trip taking me north through Cajon or occasionally I-10 east over Beaumont. Seemingly magical as they float downhill in coast, or grind rail head west out of the basin with 4 to 5 on point, and 3 or more DPU's in notch-8, diesels engines pushing every amp into those traction motors as drive wheels bite hard in blissful drones strain that is Beaumont Pass. Thank you for this artful work.

[@7ideaproductions]

Thanks for sharing. Enjoy your meal!

[@trevorsfridayshows5408]

Those are some nicely fresh painted Union Pacific auto rack cars on 22:54👍

[@BrettBarwick-ex3hn]

Some of the best rail vids you could possibly see. Many thanks all the way from Sydney Australia.

[@OnTheHorizonSomewhere]

Just the video I needed on this rainy winter day.

[@cjbeyer8340]

Thanks for sharing these amazing videos!! Love the UNION PACIFIC - Building America 🇺🇸

[@railyardfilms6491]

Congratulations I will watch next new session

[@GaryRichardson-lt7gh]

What a show of performance of the UP on the Yuma subdivision, this gets 💯/💯 & 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 in the book of railfans. Congratulations! 👏😎🫡😌

[@7ideaproductions]

Thank you!

[@TCrazyR]

Amazing Video! I can't wait to see the Lordsburg Sub Division

[@MaryYoungblood-xy8vg]

Me too. I live 30 miles north of Willcox and often go rail fanning on the Lordsburg Sub when I have a free morning.

[@TCrazyR]

@MaryYoungblood-xy8vg huh, I railfan in town (willcox too!)

[@dupdrewww]

My favorite Friday routine

[@rogertemple7193]

This is a great view of the trains going through this stretch of prairie and it is an awesome place thanks and have a Merry Christmas.🎄🚂🚃🚃🇺🇲🎄

[@skyh]

It's desert not a prairie bot.

[@TassieDinkum90]

So THAT'S why I've been seeing so much KCS motive power on the Revelstoke railcam recently, first I'm learning of the merger.

[@sawchucksaves1867]

Thanks for these tremendous train vids from the great Southwest. Really enjoy the description as the train crosses amazing geography

[@7ideaproductions]

Thank you for watching and taking time to leave a comment! I really appreciate it.

[@FocaDeSol]

Good to be the first one to interact, lets see how are you gonna surprise us today

[@J3scribe]

Excellent presentation, as usual.

[@7ideaproductions]

Thank you!

[@rrelectric5159]

Nice video. It took me several viewing sessions to get through it but was worth the time. I have ridden that line three times by train and did a quickie railfanning trip while traveling through the area. The scenery is beautiful and the driving demanding in certain times of year. You must have spent several days out there. Thanks for the effort showing so any locations and a great video.

[@christophercota2862]

I love The Union Pacific Railroad the engineers always blow their horns at me whenever they see me and they sometimes wave at me as well

[@25vrd48]

Extremely good video , I watched every second of it . Very interesting .

[@7ideaproductions]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@princessofthecape2078]

Just bought this. Love your vids.

[@abrahamstanton]

Keep it up I love the new video

[@PaulMichael-z4g]

I listen to a lot of AI voices on many KZbin vids and I truly appreciate your voice overs. You should sell your voice!

[@7ideaproductions]

Thank you. I do some voice work now and then.

[@RogerDiotte]

It just looks so UNREAL to think of all this HEAT and SUN and SAND just South of me not to far (far enough I guess) from me up in Northern Ontario Canada buried in SNOW at the moment! Them guys that grow up never leaving their Rail Job on this SUBDIVISION never know the hard ships of working up here on the railway for 34 years where it's ALOT of chilly weather and heavy WINTERS buried in snow in the Rail Yards!

[@Nicola636128]

Another outstanding video!

[@geomodelrailroader]

5:45 all journeys over the sunset route and over cajon Pass begin here Colton Yard in Los Angeles. It is here that all the trains in Southern California are put together to begin their journeys over either the Cajon subdivision headed north to Barstow or the Yuma sub headed east towards Phoenix. Trains headed north are headed either to Barstow or to the Mojave subdivision to service Roseville Yard in Sacramento where are they head to the Pacific Northwest. Colton is always busy it is the beating heart of the Southern California economy. In 2013 this was the departure gate for Big Boy as he headed home and there's a lot of action on the Piper Avenue Bridge. The East entrance of the yard used to go around a mountain but Union Pacific dynamited it to make ballast and to expand the Eastern throat of the yard. Track layout in this area is interesting track two goes straight where the mountain used to be before going to the lower level of the Colton crossing with is 2 miles outside of the yard. Track one goes underneath the freeway and then curves and then comes next to track two to enter the yard originally it just went around the mountain. The Cajon Subdivision has to go under track two and over track one and the freeway before it heads North to Barstow. Between these two tracks is the east leg of the wye which allows trains to turn around to enter Colton Yard. Everything comes into Colton well the stack trains bypass the yard to head to the BNSF of interchange at Hobart, the Los Angeles Auto Center at Milpitas, or to ICTF Long Beach to be put on a ship. All that comes through Colton.

[@ethanhufnagel4509]

Nice program 7idea Productions. I look forward to next week when you post the gila subdivison program about the line I live next to in Phoenix, Arizona.

[@7ideaproductions]

I guess I'll have to do that then!

[@ethanhufnagel4509]

@@7ideaproductions sounds good, I am excited to see it tomorrow at 5:00 pm MST

[@corycampbell9811]

The first three windmills were built in 1979. They were at the intersection of Highway 62 and Dillon Road near Painted Hills.

[@ferraritoybox]

Thx Aaron, great videos both on ground & air, nitration + history

[@davidstrawn9272]

I really loved this! First several of Norfolk Southern power made appearances in Robertson and Mecca, and Now a Eagle Mountain scene where one of my favorite steamers "Daylight 4449" was mentioned when she appeared in the 1986 film Tough Guys! Even though the Daylight logo was temporarily renamed the "Gold Coast Flyer". Thanks 7idea!

[@Sunset4Semaphores]

8:17 If you want the SP back, you must help me take BNSF public once more as the New Santa Fe. Private equity is screwed!!!

[@pauljung7611]

Wow another one cool.

[@bradleyjanes2949]

Excellent train video. Was that a shot of the recently removed rails to eagle mountain at the beggining? Salton sea and all it's history is amazing , thanks for sharing 👍😎

[@7ideaproductions]

Yes they had just pulled the ties when we visited in March/April of 23.

[@bradleyjanes2949]

@7ideaproductions thanks again 👍great work bro

[@geomodelrailroader]

15:24 welcome to the diamonds long ago BNSF and the Union Pacific fought a war here and Virgil Earp was drawn out of retirement to settle it. Over the years the diamonds caused backups on both subdivisions and a few years ago there was a derailment here. The Colton Crossovers were built in 2013 so Union Pacific trains do not block the Riverside Subdivision which is on the bottom. North of here the Riverside Subdivision joins with the Union Pacific tracks out of Colton and it becomes the Cajon Subdivision which heads to Barstow. The Yuma Subdivision continues east until it arrives in Loma Linda California home of Team Force.

[@Imperivormoss]

1:53:51 Its so nostalgic for me from 2019 through 2020 when I usee used to love UP, BNSF, CSX, NS and other cool awesome railroads out out there, that moment when I used to listen Post Malone Circles in in Fall of 2019 seeing other youtubers go to places youve gone to wish 'I could be the one' to do

[@wonderboy8800]

I am new to this page and this video IS GREAT! What rail simlator is this?

[@trevorsfridayshows5408]

I like those two C45ACCTE locomotives sitting there on 49:51 to 51:04.

[@geomodelrailroader]

Yuma Sub the beginning of the Sunset Route. This line is the backbone of America. It is here you see the legendary train that Union Pacific calls the Sunset this train connects Mardi Gras New Orleans to Los Angeles and it is the longest train in the world in terms of miles. Everything that rides the Yuma sub is either headed to New Orleans and Texas or it's headed to the Border to be delivered to the Mexicans. You can find lots of traffic on the Yuma sub.

[@troy4579]

You should make a documentary on the Durango and Silverton narrow gauge railroad.

[@7ideaproductions]

That is a really good idea...and it just happens to be coming to KZbin in early 2025. That's all I can say about it now.

[@troy4579]

@@7ideaproductions OK. Keep me updated. You should also do a documentary on the Colorado railroad museum and the Georgetown loop

[@jamesaleutious5320]

Lone Pine Sub and Trona Interchange next!

[@nickjanssens3413]

I wouldn't mess around with bin jacks if you can find a reasonable crane guy. If you plan before to use the crane efficiently he could pull the downspouts off, drop the leg, then lift the bins through the top hole and lower it ring by ring as you unbold the sheets. Just a suggestion, good luck with the project.

[@weselliott8699]

I like driving this route during the day... but at night it sucks as you can't see anything.

[@desi_patriot]

Reminded of the Russell Crowe mov.. the last train2 Yuma

[@Jack-dw2sz]

😍😍😍

[@markjohnson4924]

This was a good show. Although, I have always heard Mortmar as being pronounced "Mort Mar" and not "Mortmer." And I never heard "Fingal" pronounced "Finn Gal." But rhyming with "mingle."

[@tmr626]

Great video! You'll also find some good videos from "Trackside Tyson" in British Columbia.

[@bigB6flyer]

Niland reminds of Radiation Springs in Cars…

[@repurpbus]

There is a far fetched idea to dig a cannel from the Sea of Cortez to Salton Sea to make a new port and to flush out the Salton Sea.

[@cwshawk]

Mud pot edition!

[@fakecumberland]

A little bit different from my first trip there in 2005.

[@Earnest2008]

Z-AILA

[@roderickcampbell2105]

Salton Sea baby! Not a lovely place.

[@7ideaproductions]

I made it a point not to film there in the summer.

[@corycampbell9811]

If you look beyond the blight you will find the beauty of the Salton Sea. The dead of summer in the desert is not for the faint of heart. The winters are the best time in the desert.

[@lonnieD542]

Calipatria near Niland home to the worlds tallest flagpole

[@Kolejaros]

What does it mean: MOVEABLE POINT FROG ?